{"id":347,"date":"2005-07-29T08:29:38","date_gmt":"2005-07-29T14:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=347"},"modified":"2005-07-29T08:57:48","modified_gmt":"2005-07-29T14:57:48","slug":"when-politicians-act-without-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2005\/07\/when-politicians-act-without-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"When politicians act without thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know, that happens on a regular basis, but this caught my eye while reading my news feeds this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/rss\/topstories\/*http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/ap\/20050729\/ap_on_hi_te\/australia_video_game_sex\">Australia Outlaws &#8220;Grand Theft Auto&#8221; (AP)<\/a><br \/>\nAustralian officials effectively banned the computer game &#8220;Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas&#8221; and ordered it removed from stores Friday because it contains hidden sex scenes that can be viewed with a special Internet download.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess they&#8217;ll be banning Internet Explorer and Safari next, since they can display pictures and videos of sex acts with certain Internet downloads.  For that matter, email programs should be banned, too, since all manner of filth comes into peoples inboxes, some of it labeled SEXUALLY EXPLICIT thanks to US Federal legislation.  Sheesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know, that happens on a regular basis, but this caught my eye while reading my news feeds this morning: Australia Outlaws &#8220;Grand Theft Auto&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-5B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}